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Thursday of the First Week of Lent · Weekday

Mass Readings for Thursday, March 9, 2028

On Thursday, March 9, 2028, the Church in the United States keeps Thursday of the First Week of Lent (Cycle II); the liturgical color is violet. The Gospel is Matthew 7:7-12.

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The liturgical day

Liturgical color

Violet

Celebration
Thursday of the First Week of Lent
Season
Lent · Week 1
Rank
Weekday
Sunday cycle
Year C
Weekday cycle
Cycle II

Mass readings US

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Gospel Matthew 7:7-12

  • 7Ask, and it shall be given to you. Seek, and you shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you.

  • 8For everyone who asks, receives; and whoever seeks, finds; and to anyone who knocks, it will be opened.

  • 9Or what man is there among you, who, if his son were to ask him for bread, would offer him a stone;

  • 10or if he were to ask him for a fish, would offer him a snake?

  • 11Therefore, if you, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your sons, how much more will your Father, who is in heaven, give good things to those who ask him?

  • 12Therefore, all things whatsoever that you wish that men would do to you, do so also to them. For this is the law and the prophets.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: The whole of Matthew 7

Computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

In US parishes the readings are proclaimed from the NABRE; the text shown here is the Catholic Public Domain Version.

Old Testament readings and the psalm are listed with a link to their chapter: the US Lectionary numbers some of their verses differently from the CPDV, so their text is not printed here. Psalm citations keep the Lectionary’s Hebrew numbering; the CPDV numbers the Psalms as the Vulgate does.

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Saint of the day

St. Frances of Rome

Religious · Remembered on March 9

Patron of motorists

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